Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 January 1945 — Page 11

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; Secret Weapon

(Ernie Pyle is 5 route to the . Pacific wap: zone and the first of his dispatches’ on the war’ against’ ~ Japan will appear mn a few days.) Pal

WITH, ADM. HALSEY'S THIRD FLEET, Off the Philippines (Via Alrmail).—It. was a top secret for a long time, our secret weapon against the Japs. It was the answer to our Pacific fleet's virtual non-stop hammering of the enemy, But the Japs ‘themselves know about“it now. They learned about it to their misfortune in the first Battle of the Philippine sea’ in June, 1944. That was the..time when they thought they would find us low on. fuel after supporting the landing at Saipan and consequently at ‘a disadvantage, But we had our secret weapon— our ability to refuel in mid-ocean, We had rendezyoused with our, tankers and our ships were.overflowing—and ready to fight. Our tafiter service, indeed, has done much to make our Pacific fleet the most mobile, ‘most revolutionary fighting unit ever to come down to sea. No less than any other department it bas helped to tame

"this great ocean, to neutralize its vast distances and.

depths + “, : o How we refuel in mid-ocean 8: a ‘technique that shows American ingentrity at its best.» No other navy in the world refuels alongside.as we do.

Refuet- in High Seas YOUR CORRESPONDENT lias watched dozens of. refuelings since joining the fleet. He has watched from the throbbing decks of tanks and-from hangar “He has stood amidst lashed down’ planes and marveled at the way slender youngsters in blue dungarees manipulate that black phython that looks more than a 'match tor a stout machine let alone ‘human flesh, though actually the hose has been lightened to make handling swift and easy. Onewtlay the writer watched a refueling in seas It “would have been impossible: to t*old-fashigned heayy- hose - across in such a sea. The tanker's the sailors were scampering about A great: wavwe'splashed over-the nkér, sweeping oné of the crew against the bulk‘head and breaking his leg. This is the way our secret weapon is applied:

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Inside Indianapolis By Lowell Nussbaum

"WHEN WILL world war II end? You don’t know?-

we'll bet most of you can't even tell Nov. 11, 1918? Nope, That's merely ‘when the armistice By consulting" the World Almarac, a mighty handy - little booklet, we find world war I didn't end offiLlally for two and a half years after the armistice. It was on July: 2, 1921, that President Barding signed the joint resolution of congress declaring peace with Germany and Austria” Gosh, we “hope all- this doesn't worry the boys in the arméd forces who en- ~ listed “for the duration and six months.” Maybe it won't take py < congress so long this time to dis- ¥ cover that the war's over. A reference last week to Walter Newport “filling his pipe with what is probably the only tobacco. grown

That's nothing.

us when world war I ended. that's - wrong. was signed.

a Indianapolis this year” brought a quick challenge

from C. E. Tuttle, of the Service Spring Co., 735 St. Mr. Tittle sends us snapshots of the victory _

his “Tobacco Road” He had about 20 plants of black” Burley tobacco, some of which wound up “in the form of cigars. Mr. Tuttle admits the cigars are strong ‘enough to walk by themselves. He had a sign, *Tobacco Road,” in the tbbacco patch, and- a rural ‘Jeeter- Lester.”

A Pleasant Mystery THERE'S A MYSTERY that’s been: bothering

Mildred Eubank for several years now, and she's no

‘nearer a solution today than at; the start. Her birthday’s on Dec. 21. And every “birthday forthe. last five or six years, she has receivkd a dozen beautifuls

‘America Flies

or?

ENSIGN JOHN J, KEHOE, U. 8, N. R, of Be-

ww qhesda, Md. dove his Curtiss SB2C Helldiver on a

back .at his backseat aircrewman, Abner

target ‘at Peleliu, shell tore through the starboard wing. The ammunition box behind the wing machine. guns exploded” and flames began eating their way along the wing toward the cockpit” Kehoe kept on toward the target, completed. his dive and “dropped his bombs iii a successful” hit. Then he pulled out gradually, saw .the flames had not reached the fuselage and decided to save the plane. Climbing out over the sea to a 2500-foot altitude he looked’ Harris; aviation radioman 3-¢, U.S. N. R., of Brooklyn, N. Y. He ordered him to bail out and Harris threw back the canopy and jumped,

Landing Under Difficulty

A SERIES. of violent sideslips and other aerial maneuvers caused the slipstream to pull the flames away from the fuselage and back from the wing. Kehoe expertly stunted the Helldiver until the airstream whipped down and finally extinguished the

oes

My Day

get jobs and get a share of

4 WASHINGTON, Sunday. This fs New Year's éve. In a press conference some time ago, I was asked what was my wish for this’ New Year's day and, like every other person in this country and in many other countries in the world, I said: “That. the war may end soon.” None of us will be thinking of anything .else, but perhaps we can, think primarily of how we can to our part better in helping _ the. war effort—perhaps by -not complaining if things see to us a little_ trying at times ahd we do not quite see ‘the reason why certain things are as they are; perhaps by working a little harder at whatever our jobs may be;

~ of the men who have already done their service in the war and are foming back Into civilian. Hie,”

All of these men now bear Some scars as a result

- of that service and one of the best. ways we’ can

‘help the war effort, I think, +0 to help these ‘men

perhaps by thinking a little more

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ZA big Essex class carrier is selected and the tanker |- «pulls alongside, .. messenger, and finally, 'a rope to which is tied the:

A light line is shot across, then a

pythonlike ‘hose.. ‘A destroyer comes along on the other: side.” Hoses are sent across to her, theh teléphone lines to the hose station, while other wires connect the bridge with hers. The ships ‘continue moving at. fast clip through the sea, in the direction of the enemy, = “We're ready,” comes the word over the telephone. “Start your pumps.” “The pumps are started, " goes back the answer. The thick, black oil ‘begins to: flow through the

. hoses as the three ships proceed through the water. Keen-eyed helmsmen, the key men in’ the operation,|

keep the ships steady, even distances from each other.

Fresh. Supplies Shifted

THE. FUEL gurgles swiftly through the snaky|

hoses, suspended limply on curved wooden saddles tied to booms projecting over the water They are tended by" hand on the big ships, by winch on. the tankers. They are-paid in and out gradually . to compensate for the occasional widening and narrowing of the. distances between. fueled while the carrier's Hirst innards are being

fled. Everywhere on the water are other tankers; servic: 3 ing other ships. Diesel ofl flows through for the de=1

stroyer escorts and submarine chasers, ordinary: black fuel for the carriers and Battleships Ea%iing for the planes While the refieling’s in process, whips are shot across from the tanker and canvas-bags are sent over containing everything fromi’ fresh fruits to movies and passengers, You went-aboard the tanker at a South Pacific port to" catch the fleet. ' Now you are

swinging’ aboard one ‘of the carriers in a boatswain's|

chair. Mobile filling” stations, long distance water taxis, these tankers are all’ things to all persons.

The entire fleet is thus refueled. Hoses are pulled] -

back dnd the armada streaks off at full speed. " Planes are orbiting over now-and landing on the carrier decks... They're not the.same enes which have

mounted a watehful combat patro! since the pumps were started... They're new planes and they're flying|

off the decks. of the jeep carriers to replace the coms bat losses the fleet has suffered since .it last refueled. There are fresh: pilots at the controls te replace the pilots lost in action. But there aré considerably more .new planes than pilots, for pilot losses are not great, thanks to the navy rescue service.

1945, by The Indianafolis Times and

(Copyright, : The. Chicago. Daily News, Inc.)

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long-stemmed roses. Who sends them? = Ah, that's the mystery. Try as she will, she can’t find out. The florist doesn't know, or won't tell. She's accused fellow workers at:the U. 8. employment service, but they apparently are as mystified as. she.. She got another dozen the Thursday before Christmas. She likes the roses, Lut the. mystery is-about to worry her to death. . Prank Ward sends us a letter from the ° national ieadquarters of Dogs’ for Defense calling attention to the urgent need for dogs of war. The letter, signed by Harry 1. Caesar, president of Dogs for Defense, says: “The army is still taking Dobermans and” we still need many more dogs to fill our quota. As far as we know, the army intends to keep on recruiting dogs for some time. . . . At fhe present we have more than 5000 requests for these dogs and there are only 44 available.” Want to send your Doberman to war? You can reach Mr,

.Ward at-4450 Marcy Lane.

The Daubing Era

. THIS MAY GO.down in_history as the year that started Indianapolis as the art center of the world. For all we know, there may be several hundred future Michelangelos right. here. in the city, daubing away with reckless abandon. It’s'all the resiilt of a story In a recent issue of the magazine, Readers Digest.

The story made painting with oils sound as easy ‘as

falling’ off a log. And right-away, every doting parent ~<or nearly every one—decided that here was a fine present to. get for little Willie or Uncle Emmett, a present that might start him on a career. The result

_ is that local drt stores were swamped with buyers. One store (Lieber's) hdd 600 oil paint sets on hand|

for the holiday season, and every set was. sold out before” Christmas. There's scarcely a book on oil painting left on the ‘shelves. What it's all going to lead. to, we don’t know. But were a little apprehensive.

By Max B. Cook

blaze... Then he pointed the plane back toward the carrier with” the prospect of an exceedingly precarious landing. The hydraulic fluid used to pw the landing

flaps had burned out and he could not get the flaps|

down. The Jap shell had shot away ‘the locking pin of his right wheel. He made an extraordinarily long approach and cut his speed to a minimum, -

1Split-Second Thinking’

~~AS THE HELLDIVER hit the flight deck, the wheel buckled. Expert handling prevented a crash and Kehoe climbed out uninjured. Other mayy planes spotted Harris on -the water some distance away and within an. hour .he, too, was safe. : Ever since Armistice day, 1943, the hard-hitting Helldivers have been raising havoc against the Japs in the Pacific. ‘Now 1t is ‘announced that they have been equipped with 20mm fixed cannon,.the first cannon- firing warplanes built for carriers, In the recent Second Battle of the Philippine ‘Sea, the Helldivérs .gained new honors through their slashing, effective attacks against the Japs. ,

“Split-second thinking onthe" “part of pilots ‘and * ruggedness of construction” are cretiited as reasons |

i the SB2C’s take 'em out, deliver ahd bring ’'em ac

‘By. Elegnor Roosevelt

to ‘the country in Paceline as ‘well as in wartime! 1 was asked also in a press conference if. I would lake .any New Year's resolutions! It is many a long day since my grandmother used to suggest that I should make up my mind to be a better little girl—not to steal candy out of the pantry, to take

my. cold bath in the ‘morning instead of trying. to

get away with & warm one, etc. I suppose, however, that at any age it" does us no harm to look over cour past shortcomings and plan to improve our characters and-acliong tn the coming year.

I imagine that I should make up my mind to

say “no” more succ y and to do whatever I.do with better preparation os to be more patient when other people seem rather slow in the everyday affairs of life. One thing I, know I should do and that ts, T should find more time to read. The world of books

is full of ideas which 1 long to know more about, |

and yet, because I plan my time so badly, books

pile up unread on tables and in bopkcases. It-is||

only ‘now. and then that I get the joy of exploring, through a book, that most fascinating, thing in the ‘world—~another ggerson's mind, Lats hope that T will keep all fhe gro resolutions. 8 general. way, let's .cotice

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ALL WAR BOND DRNVES GO OVER THE. TOP.

RAGGED EDGE— Rubbernecking \-. Is Blamed for "Wear on Shirts |

NEW YORK, Jan. 1 (U. P.).— If all bewhiskered men and bearded ladies will turn their heads sharply in this directionthey will knock about five hours off the life of the shirts on ‘their backs. Specifically, they” will - rake. neckline beard “stubble against shirt collars and start that slow, insidious process known as fraying of the collar. _ Science's latest shirt tale today “advised wearers of shirts to stop blaming nard water, Wing (no

er's prewar suds machine and pixies for the ‘parting of little. threads in collars. . ” o ”

and rubbernecking that give collars - kinship with the edge, of a piece of _gauze ‘bandage, and that ‘ fact comes. clean from the textile experts of the American Institute of ‘Laundering. : These experts wash tubs for weeksand came up with a cluster of facts about shirts. For example, ‘the most vulnerable part of a shirt is the fold line of the collar. The experts laundered a shirt 100. times

tween washings. The collar was "just beginning to. fray. \ » 2 un

A SECOND SHIRT of the same brand, same quality was. farmed out to some lucky expert who turned it back dirty to the institute washtub only 35 times before the collar showed that weakness strong. men dread - ~ That proved, said the experts, running their fingers around the insides of their collars, that whiskers' on the neck are to shirt collars what sand is to a soda cracker. =i . Your best bet, the authorities said, is to forget the size shirt you wore 20 years ago-and buy them big enough for you now, according to the tape measure. Get them roomy between: the shoulders and neither too’ long nor tog short in the sleeve. And keep shaving. All this ison the cuff.

OFFICERS TO TAKE POST New officers’ of Ellen Rebekah

the officers of District No. 6, Rebekah lodge, Thursday evening.

tickee) Sling’s washboard, moth-_

IT'S THE gaping and craning’

accomplished something and we've

two years and thereafter.”

Known as the “general” . deference to his rank as a retired

51 army ‘major-general—le was a

heavier and wiser man. - -

is has been a new game to me,” the general smiled. “I was

one from buck private to-divi-sional commander has a certain amount of privacy. I used to play tennis and swim regularly and managed to keep down hits waistline.” He looked out the window. wistfully. . 89 8

bent over hot

and let nobody wear. it in be-

lodge No, 520 will be installed by}:

“AS AN old army man, without any previous experience in pol-: itics, 1 learned a number of things —they’ve made me a great deal * wiser. One thing. I've learned is ‘that, even’ those with the best intentions can't -always agree.” Thé general feels the qutstanding achievement of his administration has’ been the organization of .about 150 civic and business leaders into a post-war planning committee. Of course, the mayor said, the city’s facilities have been improved meanwhile and placed in better working condition. Ren B 3 L “THIS administration inherited a8 run-down city government, through no fault of anyone,” he shrugged in a typical Tyndall mannerism. “The first thing we did was to _get the city’s strgets in better shape, among other thifigs. No one was to blame for such conditions. The depression left Indianapolis badly in need. of re= pair—as it left most of the other cities.” ” ” 2 > “WE'VE filled the chuckholes and “helped to save motorists’ tires." A lot of streets have been resurfaced. Many previously im=passable streets were paved, par ticularly. on the southside, We've stopped’ professional gambling. “Oh, there is still some petty gambling—there always’ will. be ‘when it’s possible to open up.a "place in half a-—day. I believe we've shown that gang warfare can be prevented, though,” the general declared emphatically. “We've tried mainly to held

Up. Front With Mauldin

used to army life, where every- -

| Tyndall manneri

I'VE LEARNED A NUMBER OF NG pd Tyndall Calls-Post-War Plan Hoosier Becomes o. 1 Achievement as Mayor

By KENNETH HUFFORD “THE LAST TWO YEARS have been tough.

But, I think we've made some fine plans for the next

As he stood at the half-way .point in his termi, Mayor Tyndall today reflected on his administration to date. to city hall employees ° and others—in

a a #

Mayor Robert H. Tyndall . | . heavier and wiser at the halfway point.

our own until. sich time as we can launch our post-war program and equip the city for a-better life.” o ” s SLUM CLEARANCE, improvements at City hospital, a survey of the ‘city’s antiquated sewer system and the building of finer recreational facilities .are among future plans Mayor Tyndall and his post-war. planning committee have in mind. . y “I. don'tf/ want ‘to say much about it set, though. I want to wait until I can show our. citizens thit they..all well. benefit. If -1 started talking ahout track el“evation, for ‘example, those on the north sand east sides would begin ‘to ask: ‘What are you going to do for us?’

: i o 8 » ‘PULLING at his mustache; the mayor continued:- : “I've got a financial plan that will enable Indianapolis to have / these improvements and pay for

out any the tax rate. But, I'm not ready - ta say anything about it yet”

“One thing I don't want any-

teen-canteens and Pal ¢lubs and other forms of recreation for boys and girls. Our. juvenile délinquency, as a result, is far jess othan comparable cities’ The mayor looked intently through his heavy black eyebrows! rr » ” . HE FLIPPED a letter on his’ desk. : :

1+ leaving for Miami to meet

with’ 11 other mayors for four

‘cinch. I certainly wish I could. have a little privacy once: ina While.” Sai . ‘ How the mayor will” be “able to stand the heat of Miami is a. puzzle to hisyyisitors. Anoth on is tp keep ne

heat off in his office and the win

them ‘over a period of years with= | substantial increase in

one to forget. We've established |

WATER HAUL—

| folks in the..world crazy enough

‘ fense he added, ‘any fish could live in the darn

Mountain Climber |

In Quest of Fish

THIS IS the tale of a fisherman who makes no claim for the size

of the fish caught. In facet, he honestly admits he came back empty-handed. 2 Now that isn’t accerding to “Hoyle.” But from. here on_in it gets back to”"form and purely “Waltonesque.” No hardship, no handicap is too much to © Steome for the inveterate fisher o P ® we AND SO Marine Cpl. Walter E, Dillehay, son of Edward F. Dillehay, 255 E. Iowa st. wrote home of his fishing expedition atop one of the world’s tallest island mountains located in Hawali. A truck took them up 8000 feet, but the next 5000 were to be by. foot . >. foot by foot. a ‘According to. what we had been told, there waj a small fishstocked - lake af the top,” he writes. “The first Hh and a “half really was hell on our legs-and wind. We couldnt, get -warmed up. For the nex#i two hours we climbed steadily, ahd it- was getting the best. of this person; “<_ x #2 ® :

“I COULD GO aout 30 feet ail

Ahén my ‘legs -wogld cramp -up. Fellows were strewh all the, way up the mountain. The air pressure from the altitdde hurt our ears and the cold aif bit into the Jungs, vA pg) “The more I climbed and worked the more 1 figured there would be big fish in the lake. : ~ “I thought, ‘there aren’t-many

to climb so high to fisit’ " 2 2

“AT LAST I reached the top and

looked down on my dream lake. It wis a cold, barren and solidly “We broke the ice and tried to lure them to the bait.” 7 And then in sorrow or self de“lI don't believe

thing.”

of the C. I. O, Political I pe Committee as a guia : It, was” sl

. C. 1. O. voted

raising the . possibility that

“the t~ and enoHoe

", dent,

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1944 Brought Increase i in

C.1 0. Power

By FRED W. PERKINS ; : WASHINGTON, Jan. 1.—ABy labor review of 1944 must men= ~ tion prominently the ‘eme

political force. apparent suc. cess that the

uch an

to.continue it indefinitely” on a year~around basis<~t h u s

it. will ‘affect.

political _

life “the United” he for“years to come, “An local tat State as well as national affairs. But while ‘William Green, presiand other. central officers of the A. F. of L. maintained the traditional policy against formal alliances with any political party, various A PF. of L. groups were active in the fourth«term cam- 1 paighi, mainly on the Roosgveit, -.: side. and -foremost among them’ was the Teamsters’ union of more - than half a million’ members. A See.

DANIEL. J. TOBIN, president of the teamsters, was as usual the chairman of the labor division of the Democratic National commit. During the campaign he apparently ,worked in harmony with ‘the C. I. O. forces, but with the election over Mr. Tobin not ° only denied-the- existence of national political power in-the C. 1/0. but also disclosed there had been conflicts among the labor groups which backed Mr. Roosevelt. The Teamster-C.% 0. political controversy demonstrated that

there is no assurance of a united

labor front in future political campaigns. Talk of a third party based on labor was scouted by leaders of both the C. I. O. and A. F. of L., and both ‘groups announced their intention of confining their political activities within the two existing major parties. : lf NN

A FEW WEEKS after the elec-

* tion the A. F. of L. national con-".

vention, instructed its “officers to resume negotiations with the Mine Worker leadership for the return of that Haier to the federation. _ This reunion seems likely, and it accomplished Will ‘affect the character of A. F. of L. leader~ ship, the -future career of Mr." Lewis, and also the. future of the rival C. L 0.

‘Despite insistent demands by both A. F. of L. and C. I. O. on the war labor board, plus direct ‘requests to President Roosevelt, 1944 ended with the administra“tion claiming no breakage in the Little Steel formula, the founda--tion of wartime wage stabilization. ae eS : LABOR. SPOKESMEN continued their assaults on the * ‘wage freeze,” with the argument that base rates of pay Should be raised. before the end of the war. Without this action, they" declared, the discontinuince of war production with its large premiium payments for overtime would bring sharp reductions -in- the “take home” “pay of millions.

‘Interference —

LOCAL HOSPITALS.

PASS RATING TEST

A number of Indianapolis hos-

pitals have been included in the

1944 list of those meeting the mini:

mum” standards of the American]

College of Surgeons. : They are: Central . state,

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i City, |

| Riley, Long, Coleman, Methodist, st.

{ Vincent's. and Veterans’ b#hd Sunnyside sanatorium.

| days™discussion of post-war avia- | "tion. So, you see; this job is no

Sous open = goog. push, or. the 1

“It | me some privacy here, "| even 1 don't it elsewhere,” “Shi genera) 1 d to himself. |

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Ruins Many Marriages

By RUTH MILLETT THE SOLDIER overseas was granted a _ divorce in. absentia from his wife. His mother had testified in his behalf, - tellirig” the. -court that while her son was out of the ‘country his wife- had col- me lected his. allotment money and had illicit relations with other-men. — That mother probably felt she was doing

service—to help him se- A cure a divorce ge from his wife: And whoever told him that his wife was “carrying on" with other men may have

x thought that was doing right, too.

” ” " 4 BUT ISN'T divorce between couples separated by war. one thing that should be put off until the war's end, instead of helped

* along by the friends and families

of either husband or wife? Maybe -one partner is being wronged, but if a couple are let alone they may be able to work out wroblems and to do some on both sides. % AL leat Shall itt 10 have the j

Dar ani answer to 1 grind wi = lems. y

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can help thelr chil-